 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Butte, Montana Minerals, Mines, and History Robert E. Jenkins 6 Columbus Circle Newark, Delaware 19702...of 130 mineral species have been recorded from Butte. Specimens of copper sulfides and sulfosalts like...digenite, djurleite, and enargite rank among the finest in the world. The best of Butte pyrite compares with...Handsome specimens of barite, quartz, rhodochrosite, silver, and numerous other species have been found, many...(center-background), Steward (left-background) and Kelley #2 (rightbackground) mines, Butte, ca. 1965. World |  | | Journal (issue) | | BUTTE, MONTANA Butte, Montana Minerals, Mines and History The Mineralogical Record Volume 33 • Number...crystal cluster, 3 cm across, From the Leonard mine, Butte, Montana. Frederick H. Pough collection; Jeff Scovil...painted to illustrate “The Story of Montana: The Treasure of Butte Hill and Development of the Great Copper...volume 33, January–February, 2002 Contents Butte, Montana: Minerals, Mines and History By Robert E. Jenkins...Jenkins & Jerry A. Lorengo Ed McDole: “Montana Mineral King” By Richard A. Bideaux What’s new in minerals: |  | | Report (issue) | | 74 GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE BUTTE DISTRICT, MONTANA BY \¥ALTER I-IAllVEY vVEED WASHINGTON......................... ~ . . . . Epoch of gold mining ................................................. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Epoch o'f silver mining ........· ......... ·................................. ~.............. Development of copper mining. ~ ..· . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ................................... Future of the district .................................. ·......... |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Montana Mineral Locality Index Downloaded by [University of Nebraska, Lincoln] at 20:00 09 April 2015...2015 K NOWN AS THE TREASURE STATE, Montana is rich in mineral and gemstone localities. The state motto...Plata meaning “gold and silver,” and the state seal with its representation of mining tools clearly proclaim...Montana’s mining origins. Montana’s production of copper, coal, gold, lead, manganese, phosphate, silver, talc...published describing the occurrence, collecting, mining, and cutting of the two state gemstones. Figure |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Isotopes of the Flooded Underground Mine Workings of Butte, Montana CHRISTOPHER H. GAMMONS,1,† DEAN M....Engineering, Montana Tech of The University of Montana, 1300 West Park Street, Butte, Montana 59701 2 Department...Applications, 200 Technology Way, Butte, Montana 59701 Abstract Over a century of mining and smelting of the world-class...world-class porphyry lode ore deposit at Butte, Montana, has resulted in extensive environmental damage...most acidic mining pit lakes, Butte is host to over 16,000 km of flooded underground mine workings. Of |  | Lund, Karen, McAleer, Ryan J., Aleinikoff, John N., Cosca, Michael A., Kunk, Michael J. (2018) Two-event lode-ore deposition at Butte, USA: 40Ar/39Ar and U-Pb documentation of Ag-Au-polymetallic lodes overprinted by younger stockwork Cu-Mo ores and penecontemporaneous Cu lodes. Ore Geology Reviews, 102. 666-700 doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2018.05.018 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Accepted Manuscript Two-event lode-ore deposition at Butte, USA: 40Ar/39Ar and U-Pb documentation of Ag-Au-polymetallic... M.J. Kunk, Two-event lode-ore deposition at Butte, USA: 40Ar/39Ar and U-Pb documentation of Ag-Au-polymetallic...journal pertain. Two-event lode-ore deposition at Butte, USA: 40Ar/39Ar and U-Pb documentation of Ag-Au-polymetallic...U.S. Geological Survey, MS 926-A, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, Reston, VA 20192 rmcaleer@usgs.gov c U.S...for world-class deposits of the Butte mining district, Montana, USA, is deep pre-Main Stage porphyry |  | Lund, K., Aleinikoff, J. N., Kunk, M. J., Unruh, D. M., Zeihen, G. D., Hodges, W. C., du Bray, E. A., O'Neill, J. M. (2002) SHRIMP U-Pb and 40Ar/39Ar Age Constraints for Relating Plutonism and Mineralization in the Boulder Batholith Region, Montana. Economic Geology, 97 (2) 241-267 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.97.2.241 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mineralization in the Boulder Batholith Region, Montana KAREN LUND,† U.S. Geological Survey, Mail Stop...Denver, CO 80225 GREGORY D. ZEIHEN, Montana Resources, Butte, Montana 59701 WENDY C. HODGES, U.S. Geological...batholith, Montana, hosts a variety of mineral deposit types, including important silver-rich polymetallic...the northern part of the batholith and the giant Butte porphyry copper-molybdenum pre-Main Stage system...deposits and magma for quartz porphyry dikes at Butte have all been considered to be late-stage differentiates |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Structural Geologic Evolution of the Butte District, Montana Robert A. Houston†,* and John H. Dilles...Bldg., Corvallis, Oregon 97331 Abstract The Butte district contains two porphyry Cu-Mo deposits and the...and folding in southwest Montana. New geologic mapping of the Butte district reveals three distinct episodes...that are limited to the northwest part of the district and synchronous with the eruption of the Lowland...fluid inclusion data indicate that exposures of the Butte Granite, which hosts mineralization, crystallized |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Multiple-Stage PorphyryCopperMineralizationat Butte, Montana: Vein Formationby HypogeneLeaching and Enrichment...mineralizationduring the growth of the large vein systemsat Butte, Montana. Applicationof the principlesof irreversiblethermodynamics...structures. Finally chalcocite,digenite, corellite, and enargite form in narrow high-grade veins re556 TR.4NSFER...4NSFER MECH.4NISMS, COPPER MINER.4LIZ.4TION, BUTTE, MONT.4N.4 557 suiting in a net copperaddition or...and ultimately high-grade chalcocite, covellite,enargite assemblages formed during the most intensesericitizationof |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | distomglanz, binnite (described by Des Cloizeaux as silver-rich), kupferblende (zinc-rich), miedziankite (zinc-rich)...chalcopyrite, galena, acanthite, sternbergite, enargite, bornite, covellite, calcite, dolomite, siderite...graphic granite. Pseudomorphs of tennantite after enargite are common. Pseudomorphs of pitticite (an amorphous...tennantite crystals from the Champion lode, Clear Creek County, Colorado. Dave Bunk specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...tennantite crystals with quartz from the El Cobre mine, Concepción del Oro, Zacatecas, Mexico. Cal and |  | | Report (issue) | | Virginia-503 National Center, Rm. 1C402,12201 Sunrise Valley Dr. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah-Federal Bldg., Rm. 8105...in the Bingham District, Utah By EDWIN W. TOOKER Gold in the Butte District, Montana By EDWIN W. TOOKER...TOOKER Gold in the Ely (Robinson) Copper District, White Pine County, Nevada By LAURENCE P.JAMES The Tomboy-Minnie...Tomboy-Minnie Gold Deposits at Copper Canyon, Lander County, Nevada By TED G. THEODORE, STEPHEN S. HOWE, and...in the Bingham District, Utah / by Edwin W. looker Gold in the Butte District, Montana / by Edwin W. looker |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | AND SULPHIDE CHALCOCITE BUTTE, AusT• ENRICHMENT FORMATION • AT MONTANA. F. Ro•E•s. Though first...27-I??. ?EcoN. G•OL.,.Vol. 5, PP. 205-220, 191o. 8 Mining and Scientific Press, Vol. Io6, pp. 38, 14L I78...a recentstudy of a disseminatedcopperore from a mine in PlumasCounty,California,the nameand locationof...Fie. 67. (X25 times.) Norite-diorite from Plumas County, California. O --- Ore minerals; hy • hypersthene;...restricted sense. CHALCOCITE FORMATION AT BUTTE, MONTANA. 783 agentswhichhavedeposited their metalliccontentsby |  | | Report (volume) | | it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant, it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton; |  | | Journal (issue) | | ................... MINERALS OF THE BlJ'I"I E DISTRICT. By Peter A. S111ith ..... .... A MINERAL TRIP...MINERALS OF THE BUTTE DISTRICT, MONTANA By PETER A. SM 1TH Placer gold was discovered in Butte in -r-----~Ui~...and the first silver vein the next year. In a few years Butte was a prosperous silver mining camp. Copper...1886 the the fire areas is not lost as the water Butte mines have annually yielded more leaches it out...any other single district in water containing copper sulphate is pumpthe world. Butte Hill is locally |  | | Report (volume) | | depth__________ Precipitates from mine waters under superficial conditions_ Composition of mine waters of the Jopliu-region___________...Copper-bearing deposits________________________ 199 Butte, Montana__________________________ 199 Bingham,...Arizona__________________________ 208 Note on the Bisbee district, Arizona, by F. L. Ransome_ 209 Globe and Miami...Mexico____________________ 22J Burro Mountain district, New Mexico_____________ 222 , Cananea, Mexico...__ 233 Shasta County, California______ _ __ 234 Snowstorm lode, Coeur d'Alene district, Idaho__ _ 235 |  | | Book (volume) | | ..........................................258 Montana ................................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ..................................Co. Mining Districts ............................................................22 Arizona County Map.........................23 Arizona – Cochise Co. Mining Districts .................................... |  | | Report (volume) | | ....................................... 102 District of Columbia ......................................... 139 144 146 153 158 163 169 . 172 174 Montana..................................................to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals that are widely...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products, but because they furnish |  | | Book (volume) | | conditions: the Cumberland Plateau, the Appalachian Valley, the Appalachian Mountains, the Piedmont Plain...Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE: |  | | Book (volume) | | ..........................................221 Montana .................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy |  | | Book (volume) | | ..........................................221 Montana .................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy |  | Field, C.W., Zhang, L., Dilles, J.H., Rye, R.O., Reed, M.H. (2005) Sulfur and oxygen isotopic record in sulfate and sulfide minerals of early, deep, pre-Main Stage porphyry Cu–Mo and late Main Stage base-metal mineral deposits, Butte district, Montana. Chemical Geology, 215 (1) 61-93 doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2004.06.049 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Main Stage base-metal mineral deposits, Butte district, Montana C.W. Fielda,*, L. Zhanga, J.H. Dillesa...Geosciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA U.S. Geological Survey, MS-963, Denver Federal Center...CO 80225, USA c Department of Geological Sciences, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA Accepted...throughgoing, Main Stage polymetallic veins of Butte. Among the sulfur-bearing minerals recovered from...conventionally bmagmaticQ value of about 1x or 2x for Butte sulfur. However, the high modal mineral ratios of |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Inc. Economic Geology, v. 108, pp. 1379–1396 The Butte Magmatic-Hydrothermal System: One Fluid Yields All...Washington 98225 Abstract Mine exposures and deep drilling reveal that the Butte porphyry Cu-Mo ores occur...Geochemical modeling of reaction of a magmatic fluid with Butte granite between 600° and 200°C at 1 kbar shows that...alteration and mineralization features observed in the Butte system. Thus, a single fluid composition may form...low-temperature veins containing covellite and enargite with quartz-kaolinite alteration—is likely to |  | | Report (volume) | | precipitation of the metalo........ Composition of mine waters............................................of sulphide enrichment Continued. Composition of mine waters Continued. Discussion of analyses Continued........................................ Gold and silver............................................ Changes...on depth..................... Precipitates from mine waters under superficial conditions....... Oxidation...relations and minerals of silver........................... Principal silver minerals................ |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | pp. 1321-1336 A Thermochemical Studyof Alunite,Enargite,l,t,z{n,ite, andTennantiteDeposits JERRYE. KNIGHT...oxidation favors formation of alunite, quartz, enargite (luzonite), and tennantiteover other minerals...pyritechalcopyrite-potassium feldsparin the pluton upward to enargite (luzonite)-tennantitealunite in the volcanic rocks... Gilluly, 1946 Hill Morenci, Arizona, Ryerson mine shale-porphyry Ray, Arizona, No. 1, 2, and 3 mines... quartz Cananea, Mexico, Coloradopipe and all mine Kelley, 1935 Safford, Arizona, shaft volcanics |  | | Report (issue) | | Land Stewardship—Headwaters Province, Idaho and Montana Circular 1305 U.S. Department of the Interior...Land Stewardship—Headwaters Province, Idaho and Montana By U.S. Geological Survey Headwaters Province...land stewardship—Headwaters province, Idaho and Montana: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1305, 92 p. Cover.... Geochronology and Geochemistry of the Idaho-Montana Porphyry Belt, by Cliff D. Taylor, Jeffrey A. Winick...Mineralization in the Boulder Batholith Region, Montana, by Karen Lund, John N. Aleinikoff, Michael J. |
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Steward Mine, Butte Mining District, Silver Bow County, Montana, USA